From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: properly check pskb_may_pull return value
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:15:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E98B7E.4000400@meshcoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391037144-2448-1-git-send-email-antonio@meshcoding.com>
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On 30/01/14 00:12, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> pskb_may_pull() returns 1 on success and 0 in case of failure,
> therefore checking for the return value being negative does
> not make sense at all.
>
I should have added:
This way if the function fails we will probably read beyond the current
skb data buffer.
> Fix this by doing the proper check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
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2014-01-29 23:12 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: properly check pskb_may_pull return value Antonio Quartulli
2014-01-29 23:15 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
2014-02-02 14:38 ` Marek Lindner
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